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  • PARA PROSDOKIAN AND THE COMIC BIT IN ARISTOPHANES

  • Craig Jendza
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 73 / Issue 2 / December 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 February 2024, pp. 541-557
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    December 2023
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  • This article bridges a gap in the study of Aristophanic humour by better demonstrating how individual jokes (in this case, the para prosdokian ‘contrary to expectation’ joke) contribute to the wider comic scenes in which they are embedded. After analysing ancient and modern explanations and examples of para prosdokian jokes, this paper introduces the concept of ‘comic bit’, a discrete unit of comedy that builds humour around a central premise, and establishes how para prosdokian jokes contribute to comic bits in a way that recent theories of para prosdokian cannot account for.

  • TRANSLATING ARISTOPHANES’ PUNS

  • Dimitrios Kanellakis
  • Journal:
    Greece & Rome / Volume 69 / Issue 2 / October 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 September 2022, pp. 238-253
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    October 2022
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  • This paper sketches a taxonomy of Aristophanic puns and explores the strategies employed by ‘faithful’ English translations for rendering such jokes. No pun is untranslatable. At the same time, there is no perfect translation but a range of options, more or less effective for a certain context, audience, and type of pun. The challenges which translators face with Aristophanic jokes, as well as the ingenious solutions they offer on occasions, invite us to reappraise the original puns, whose wittiness is too often denied by scholarship.